Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-'Utmani al-Miknasi () (1437–1513) was a Moroccan scholar in the field of

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, Islamic law,

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and

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. He was born in

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from Banu Uthman, a clan in the

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kutama tribe, but spent his life in

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. Ibn Ghazi wrote a three-volume history of Meknes and a commentary to the treatise of Ibn al-Banna, ''Munyat al-hussab''. For an explanation of his work, Ibn Ghazi wrote another treatise (about 300 pages long) titled ''Bughyat al-tulab fi sharh munyat al-hussab'' ("The desire of students for an explanation of the calculator's craving"). He included sections on arithmetic and algebraic methods. He is also the author of ''Kulliyat'', a short work on legal questions and judgements in the Maliki madhab.E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231

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*Al-Hamza MH, ''Ibn Ghazi al-Fasi al-Miknasi and his treatise “The purpose of studying in explaining the desire of calculators" ''. Academic year-long conference IHST Academy of Sciences. M. 2005. pp. 299–301. 1437 births 1513 deaths 15th-century Berber people 16th-century Berber people 15th-century mathematicians 15th-century Moroccan historians 16th-century Moroccan historians Berber historians Berber scholars Berber scientists Berber writers Kutama Linguists from Morocco Moroccan Maliki scholars Medieval Moroccan mathematicians Moroccan scientists People from Fez, Morocco People from Meknes 15th-century jurists 16th-century jurists {{Morocco-writer-stub

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